Rebekahlynn9

B12 in combination with a high protien low carb diet gives you energy and puts your metabolism into overdrive. You can also use fiber powder like sugar free taste free benefiber to cut carbs if something you want has few extra carbs in it. I have a tsp in my morning coffee to offset my flavored creamer! 😉

I'm 6 months into my gastric sleeve and my dr prescribed low dose Phentermine to break my stall, very short term..... it worked and I'm back to loosing again. I only take it as needed to break through plateaus. 3-4 days max then off till I hit another stall. It's working for that purpose, no serious side effects thank goodness, but it does give me crazy energy.

It's a huge pain in the arse! I'm the same, but for me I just don't ever get the urge to go, its like that signal was completely disconnected..... I have to use some sort of laxative to get it going and they dont always work and I only get the urge when its literally knocking at the door 😆.....Usually every 3-4 days I'll start taking dolcolax cause thats the only thing I've found that works for me. I've never tried smooth move though. I'm going to give it a shot.

Hahah, thanks for the kitty comment. He is my buddy, he was waiting to see if I would share my breakfast lol. I can relate to the eating out situation..... I can't stand being asked if the food was alright etc. 😒 then having to explain that I have a small tummy. Lol.

I wonder if these portions depend on what type of surgery you've had? I had the gastric sleeve and am 6 months out. I can eat 3 Oz of protein in a sitting but not much else.

I had the gastric sleeve a little over a month ago, I experienced dumping according to my nutritionist, it happened after I ate a small scoop of vanilla ice cream at my daughter's birthday party. But it was nothing like it's been described to me in the past or on forums etc. I just got super tired and took a 3 hr nap when I got home. I'm very careful not to eat sugar now, or if I'm going to eat it I'll eat a very small portion, like 1 jelly bean 😂. Besides, since surgery most sugary things are wayyyy too sweet now anyway. Dumping can present differently in sleeve patients than it does in bypass patients if at all. I just happen to be one of the luck ones.

I just broke my stall today, started at 3 weeks post op. It lasted for 14 days, gained and lost the same 2 lbs the entire time. My dietitian said its because of my transition from liquid to soft food and now that I'm a month in today I have no food restrictions. She wants me at 900 cal a day and 60/75 g protein. No limit on carbs. With my stomach restriction I dont see how in the world I'll be able to do that. She said once I start eating more my weight will start to go down again! We've always been taught less is more. Not sure why or how more is going to work but we'll see. Lol

Im 2 weeks out from surgery and things are going good for now, but I know that eventually Im going to have to start introducing and incorporating real food back into my diet and my calorie intake is going to get higher, I'm just terrified that once I do that even of its 4-500 calories my weight is going skyrocket! Has any one experienced weight gain durring their transitional phases? How did it work out? Did you have to start hitting the gym daily to continue loosing? Can you please share your stories. Thank u

Thank you for the response, I reached out to my dr and she advised me that dulcolax is safe to use so I went for the gusto and took 3 at once...... Wont do that again! Talk about nausea. But on the positive note it got things going again!

I hady surgery on 6/21/20 but havent had a bm since, is this normal? I've tried all the recommended solutions, colase miralax milk of magnesa..... Nothing works, the most I get is a toot lol..... Could it be that Im only drinking water and protein shakes? Im not tolerating the soups well. Anyone else having this issue?

I agree, I crave nutrient's for energy but no desire for food at all ( its a weird feeling) and yes, the incision pain is awful, I have this one right by my belly button that stings like its being ripped apart any time I go to sit up or bend over to tie a shoe, the others are fine. But they say the incision they pull your stomach through will be the one that hurts the worst and takes the longest to heal.

How's everyone doing so far? Today is full liquid day for me and I'm tolerating my shakes pretty well. I added miralax to my shake this morning to make sure I dont get bound up from the protein. So far so good, the restriction is real so baby steps, still having a hard time getting 64 oz of water daily...... Other than that I found mio drops + caffeine and B12, my program allows small amounts of caffeine daily, so I've been putting 1 drop of mio into a medicine cup mixed with water and that really gets me going in the morning. Its crazy how such small amounts hit me now.

I had my surgery 6/21/22 went in 245 came out 250 and down to 248.9 today!! The struggle is real. Sounds like this is normal for a lot of people. 😣

🤣 thats funny. And your welcome hahah.

How was your surgery? How are you feeling today?